Re: fbdev sysfs support.

Greg KH
2004-02-07T01:29:09Z

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > This function will not get called until the sysfs node stops being busy,
> > so it should all work properly. But only if that fb_info structure was
> > allocated dynamically, unlike all of the current fb drivers (see my
> > other comment about this patch.)
> >
> > So in that case, this will cause us to try to call kfree on a static
> > structure :(
>
> I plan to move every driver to framebuffer_alloc.

When? With this patchset? Or at a later time? It all needs to be done
at the same time to prevent easy kernel oopses.

thanks,

greg k-h